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hpr3530 :: Filenames and ASCII

by: Ahuka

Publication date: 2022-02-11
Usage: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
Topics: DOS, early PC computing, filenames, ASCII
Contributor: HackerPublicRadio
Language: English
Item Size: 231.1M

Summary: We continue our look at the old warhorse, DOS. This time it is DOS filenames and ASCII
Series: DOS
Source: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3530
Original audio: http://archive.org/download/hpr3530/hpr3530_source.flac

In a purely text-based operating system you need to pay special attention to naming files. You won't have any helpful icons or thumbnails to help you locate things. So we dig into the file naming conventions in DOS, including forbidden characters. And since the possible characters all come from the ASCII character set, we do a small look at that as well.